Monday, May 26, 2014

Let us temporarily move our minds beyond the alleged tradeoff between being single and lonely, or being in a relationship and bored. (Admittedly it is debatable.)

Putting that aside, I have a theory. Single people tend to be rigid in their opinions. Once they've made up their own mind, that's it. On the other hand, being in a relationship compels one to be flexible and open minded to a certain extent, in order to accommodate the other's opinions, tastes and preferences.

This reality opens one up to all sorts of compromises that one would have never otherwise contemplated. Commonly referred to as "love conquers all," we have all seen the phenomenon of lovers ditching ideological stances, personal principles and even entire religions in the name of love.

It has happened to me enough times. For example, my taste in music and choice of viewing have been significantly influenced by exes, friends, the company I keep. On my own I am cautious of being seduced by pop culture. Even certain so-called "gospel music" don't cut it no more, mostly I'd rather let my thoughts soar through silence and naturally occurring ambient noises. If something "hot" comes up, you will catch me scowling at the screen moments before I change the channel or switch it off altogether. But put me on even the most casual setting with an acquaintance and the pop music will eventually bob my unwilling head as the visuals charm my hypnotized eyes. At long last all resistance is laid in the dust and the old joints will bust spontaneous moves.

I for one have resolutely taken the extreme view: unless I meet someone who is as strict (or stricter) about what they allow themselves to listen to or watch, guarding my own mind will be a losing battle. Since two shall become one, be not unequally yoked. Compromise must come with relationships indeed: however certain lines must be drawn as mutually inviolable or else two can not walk together.

Friday, May 23, 2014

Love pops up when none seeks itinterfering with mundane routinesthrowing predictable patterns into disarray
so that jaded old veterans giggle like kidslike tickled toddlers screaming out mirth,
futility!
Attempting to exhaust interminable laughterthrough toothless mouths extended wide;tiring from the effort but laughing still,
laboriously suspending this stanza of chortlesjust in time to inhale barely enough air for the next,
convulsing like a live wire act all the while
infecting all with at least a smile...

Friday, May 2, 2014

Satan's church had its beginning at Babylon with the construction of
the Tower of Babel on the plain of Shinar by the River Euphrates many
generations after the deluge. At the time of the construction of Babylon
at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-4), mankind had multiplied and
spoken one language. Cush who was the son of Ham and grandson of Noah
(Genesis 10:1, 6), helped to plan with his son Nimrod, a blueprint by
which to rule the world of humanity through a wicked counterfeit
religion. Nimrod was the originator of sun worship and founder of
Babylon. A Bible translation called the Targum says, “Nimrod became a
mighty man of sin, a murderer of innocent men, and a rebel before the
Lord.”

The beginning of Nimrod's evil plan had its origin at
Babel which was later known as Babylon. This city of Babylon with a
tower “whose top may reach unto heaven” was built by Nimrod (Genesis
10:8-10; 11:4). Tower of Babel. They called the tower “Babel, the gate to
heaven,” but God called it what it was which was, “Babel, confusion,”
for there God confused the language of the people which forced them to
scatter. This heaven defying group of people wanted one government to
rule the world and one religion to sway the hearts of mankind. This was
Satan's attempt to defy God and His authority and the ring leader of his
scheme was Nimrod. But God came down and stopped this world wide
rebellion at Babel, in defiance of His command for mankind to replenish
the earth (Genesis 9:1) by confusing their language into many languages
so they could not understand one another's speech. Mankind discontinued
the building of Babel and were scattered to different parts of the world
(Genesis 11:8-9).

Nimrod had a plan to weld together and
strengthen this evil religious system and so he married his own mother
who was Semiramis. She was the first deified queen of Babylon and Nimrod
was the first deified king. Semiramis was as wicked as her son Nimrod,
and as much sold out to Satan and devil worship as did he. Incest was
used here as a basis to unite this newly false religious system. Nimrod
and his mother/wife would be greatly used by Satan in the following
centuries to send countless millions and even billions of souls to hell.

Satan's plan was to develop a counterfeit, opposition system of
religion to attract worship away from the true God of Heaven. This false
system had its sacrificial plan just as God had a plan of sacrifice.
But Satan's pagan worship required the offering up of human beings,
which was often the sons and daughters of the worshipers. A counterfeit
holy day was instituted in honor of the sun god, (Sun-day) and this was
designed by Satan to rob God of his peculiar authority as the Creator of
the universe as designated by His Holy day the Sabbath.

Have you
noticed how occult symbols are typically reversed? Example: The occult
symbol for a cross is an inverted cross. Most have never noticed that
God uses the 6:1 principle. That is, you have 6 of something normal and
then on the 7th something special happens. Example: God created the
world in 6 days and the 7th is a special day of rest and worship. Crops
were grown for 6 years and the 7th year the land was rested. Slaves were
kept for 6 years and were to be set free on the 7th year. There are 6
weeks from Passover to the 7th week being Pentecost. There are 6 months
from Passover to the 7th month being the Day of Atonement. Bible
chronologists say we are currently approaching the end of 6000 years
since creation and if Christ returns at the end of 6000 years, we will
then have the 7000th year being the 1000 year millennial reign. (See
Revelation 20:1-15) So 6000 years + 1000 years (millennium) = 7000
years. None of this is by chance and is God's plan. Observe the days of
the week below.

Sunday Day 1 Monday Day 2 Tuesday Day 3 Wednesday Day 4 Thursday Day 5 Friday Day 6 Saturday 7th Day Sabbath

The first six days are normal but the 7th day is the “Sabbath of the
Lord thy God.” Remember that the occult uses the reverse symbol or is
the opposite (in opposition) to God. So if Sunday was Satan's plan for a
day of worship, and we have seen historically that it is, then his week
would be the reverse of God's week. Instead of being the 6:1 principle
it would be 1:6. As seen from the table below, this is the case and so
it is not just two days side by side. It is the occult equivalent and
this is not by chance but Satan's choice.

We are fast approaching 6000 years (last generation now) and if Jesus
comes at the end of 6000 years we would then have a 1000 year Sabbath. A
thousands years a day just as God said. 2 Peter 3:8 “But, beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Six days work and the
Seventh day rest. This Earth's history may end up being a mirror image
of the creation week but with a thousand years to a day. That would put a
whole new perspective on the meaning of the Sabbath now that is for
sure. 6000 years of working and a 1000 years of rest. God does love
doing things in numbers!

Nimrod's and Semiramis' followers
plunged so deeply into sin and the occult that they even sacrificed
babies to Satan in their worship of him. This became a common practice
until Shem who was one of Noah's three sons and the great uncle of
Nimrod, in his anger and wrath killed Nimrod and cut him up into small
pieces as an example to others not to commit such abominable sins and
not to follow such evil religious practices. (Shem was a godly man and
it was through his seed the Messiah would come.)

Alexander Hislop
in his book The Two Babylons said, , “the Tower of Babel was actually
the worship of Satan in the form of fire, the sun and the serpent.
However, Satan worship could not be done openly because of the many who
still believed in the true God of Noah. So a mystery religion began at
Babel where Satan could be worshipped in secret.” – Alexander Hislop,
The Two Babylons, 2nd American ed.(Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux
Brothers, 1959)

Because of Nimrod's death, the followers of
Nimrod and Semiramis were stunned and experienced much grief. Their
religious hero was dead. They were afraid to continue in their worship
of Satan for fear that what happened to Nimrod would also happen to
them, so a mystery religion developed at Babel where Satan could be
worshipped in secret. This is exactly what is happening in these last
days. Satan is using mysteries and deceptions to deceive people into
thinking that they are worshipping God when they are actually
worshipping Satan.

For a short time the practices of this
counterfeit religion ceased but Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, had a
brilliant idea of how she could successfully revive her and Nimrod's
pagan religion and give it a new form. It was not long after the death
of her husband that Semiramis became pregnant. She said that when Nimrod
died that he went up to the sun, and the sun then became a symbol of
Nimrod. She told the people that a ray of the sun had come to her and
impregnated her with a child and that it was actually Nimrod coming back
in a reincarnation of the sun god. The child was called Tammuz and
these three were worshipped as the personification of the sun god, and
this is where we find the three in one trinity doctrine originated and
is where the first three came into existence. This mystery religion was
nothing more than Satan worship. Read the pagan origins of the trinity
doctrine for more.

“The trinity got its start in Ancient Babylon
with Nimrod - Tammuz - and Semiramis. Semiramis demanded worship for
both her husband and her son as well as herself. She claimed that her
son, was both the father and the son. Yes, he was “god the father” and
“god the son” - The first divine incomprehensible trinity.” – The Two
Babylons; Alexander Hislop, p.51

So Semiramis proclaimed that her
husband Nimrod was a god, and she as the wife of Nimrod was a goddess.
She then announced herself to be “The Queen of Heaven” and that she
should be worshiped as such. She claimed that her spirit was the moon
and when she died she would dwell in the moon, even as Nimrod was
already in the sun. What a devilish brainstorm inspired by Satan!

Satan was laying the foundation for every system of falsehood and error
the world has ever known. They took the truth of God and turned it into
a lie and “worshipped and served the creature (on a wider application
also includes Satan) more than the Creator.” Romans 1:25. This system of
paganism, while professing to be the true religion, is actually devil
worship. It professes and claims to be the truth of God but in reality
it is Satan's masterpiece, the “mystery of iniquity.”

As Satan's
church gained momentum, Semiramis pushed this satanic religious order
underground. The followers of this counterfeit religion had to take
secret oaths. The secret societies (some unscriptural lodges of today)
thus had their beginning. The confessionals and priesthood were set up.
The followers of this pagan religion confessed their sins to their
priests. (what church continued this unbiblical pagan tradition?) See
also 1 Timothy 2:5, Luke 5:20-21. By so doing, Semiramis could control
her followers and exercise lordship over them. She boldly and brazenly
proclaimed that she and her priests were the only ones who understood
the mysteries of God and that they were the only possible way to God.
Because of dedication to and fear of this false religious system, the
followers of this religion fearfully complied.

Semiramis and her
priests of Satan were deep into the occult, magic and illusion. They
were masters of lies and deception. Everywhere there were statues or
idols of this mother/child cult. Semiramis was soon hailed as “The Queen
of Heaven” (Ashtarte). Her symbol became the moon and her husband
Nimrod, was called “Baal” (the “sun god”) and his symbol became the sun.
The city of Babylon was the seat of Satan worship until its fall to the
Medes and the Persians in 539 BC. At this time the Babylonian pagan
priests left Babylon and went to Alexandria and Pergamos. See who is the
beast that has the number 666 or the origin of 666 for more.

It
should be noted that the majority of the Babylonian pagan priests went
to Pergamos more so than Alexandria, so for many centuries after the
fall of Babylon, Pergamos became the new seat of Satan (Revelation
2:12-13), but around 129 BC, opportunity arose for them to leave
Pergamos and go to Rome and thus Rome became the final seat of Satan
where he set up his church, and hence sun worship, which was practised
on Sunday, was most prevalent in Alexandria and Rome by the time of
Christ.

Church historian Socrates Scholasticus (5th century)
wrote: “For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate
the sacred mysteries [of the Lord's Supper] on the Sabbath of every
week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some
ancient tradition, have ceased to do this.” – Socrates Scholasticus,
Ecclesiastical History, Book 5, ch. 22.

So Baal worship was in
full swing. It caught on fast and spread to many parts of the world. In
Egypt, Semiramis became known as “Isis”, “The Queen of Heaven.” Nimrod
became known as “Osiris”, the husband/son, and frequently called “Horus”
(the sun god). In Phoenicia, Semiramis and Nimrod were worshipped as or
known as Ashterath and Tammuz; in Greece, Aphrodite and Eros; in Rome,
Venus and Cupid, and in China, Mother Shing Moo and her child.

When the cold season began every year, they believed their sun god was
leaving them. It was on December 25th that they noticed the gradual
return of the sun god. So they called this day the birth of the sun.
Tammuz was hailed as the son of the sun. He was idolized and even
worshipped and the first letter of his name became the symbol of sun
worship. Human sacrifices to the sun god were offered on this initial
letter made of wood, known as the cross “T” and this “T” for Tammuz is
also the true origin of Catholics crossing themselves. His birthday of
December 25 was honored more and more. Satan worked many years before
the conception and birth of the true Messiah to counterfeit through sun
worship His miraculous conception and birth. Satan succeeded many times
in leading God's people into sin and pagan sun worship.

The true
date of the birth of Christ is most likely between July and September
but since the exact date of Christ's birthday was unknown, it was
suggested, “Why not call it the same date as the birth of Tammuz, which
was December 25?” This was the time when the sun had reached its lowest
point on the horizon and started back up into the heavens and so the sun
god had come to life, so to speak. So gradually December 25 came to be
known as the birthday of Christ. The Papal Church finally instituted a
special mass on that day, “Christ's Mass,” and so December 25 became
“Christmas.” The yule log burning in the fire followed by the green tree
lit with candles all came from the pagan worship representing Nimrod
being dead, while his spirit still lived on in the sun and was alive
again in Tammuz his son.

Jesus was crucified and resurrected in
the spring of the year near the time of the moon festival. The devil was
at work once again to bring the idea of having a celebration at the
same time as the heathen but calling it “in honor of the resurrection.”
And in regards to the worship of the moon goddess Semiramis, the so
called queen of heaven. The cakes to the QUEEN OF HEAVEN were round and
on them was cut a cross in honor of the sun god, and they were offered
to the queen of heaven and today we call them “hot cross buns.” (Read
Jeremiah 7:16-18). The forty days of “weeping for Tammuz” became Lent
and at the close of Lent came Easter Sunday. The prophet Ezekiel was
shown even greater abominations. (Read Ezekiel 8:12-18). This goddess
Ishtar (Easter) came to be known as the goddess of springtime as in “new
life,” or as history records it, the “goddess of reproduction.” The
pagans would go to some mountain side early Sunday morning and worship
this goddess as the sun was rising in the east. They gave themselves to
immorality and indecency of every description. The eggs and rabbits were
used as symbols of fertility and germination and hence “new life.” It
all came into the Church gradually and was all blessed by the Catholic
Church and given to the world. And some people wonder why God calls the
Catholic Church Babylon!

“The use of temples, and these dedicated
to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of
trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from
illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars,
processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure,
the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date,
perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison are all of pagan
origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church.” — An Essay
on The Development of the Christian Doctrine John Henry “Cardinal
Newman” p.373.

“It has often been charged… that Catholicism is
overlaid with many pagan incrustations. Catholicism is ready to accept
that accusation and even to make it her boast… the great god Pan is not
really dead, he is baptized” — The Story of Catholicism p 37. As
time elapsed, stories spread worldwide about Semiramis and Nimrod as
Baal worship was everywhere. (The above information on the beginning of
Satan's church and its unscriptural practices is found in The Two
Babylons, by Rev. Alexander Hislop) In his book he has composed a list
of names adopted in other parts of the world that can be traced back to
Semiramis and Nimrod in one way or another. The list of names are as
follows:

Satan pulled it off well as he had the whole world trapped into some
form of Baal worship. The entire world had lapsed into polytheism
(worship of many gods or idols). Mankind no longer desired to serve the
true and living God and to accept His scriptural plan of salvation.
(Romans 1:18-32).

Around 2000 BC in Abraham's day, Baal worship
and its pagan rites had so permeated the human race that God called
Abraham out from it to be the progenitor of a nation of people (the
Israelites or Jews) who would be instructed by God through Moses and the
prophets to be a shining light and an example of godliness to the
heathen nations and reveal to them God's scriptural plan of salvation
(Genesis 11:26-12: 1-5; Exodus 19:5-6; Hebrews 11:8).

The Jews
were greatly blessed by God as His chosen people, who were to serve as
His representatives of godliness to those heathen nations who had become
entrapped by paganism, to evangelize those godless nations and to show
them God's love. The Jews were repeatedly told that if they were to sin
by serving other gods, to depart from the Lord and fail God in their
mission as His representatives to those nations trapped in Baal worship,
the Jews would suffer terribly at the hand of God and be dispersed into
all the nations of the earth. (See Deuteronomy 4:1-40; 6:14-18; 7:6-26;
8:6-20; 10:12-20; 11:1-28; 12:28-32; 29:16-29; 30:11-20).

Before
his death, Moses foretold that after his death the Jews would disobey
and turn to other “gods” to worship and serve them (Deuteronomy 31:27,
29; 32:16-29). After Moses' death, Joshua took command and led the
children of Israel across the River Jordan into Palestine. The Jews were
ordered to exterminate the Canaanites of the land because they were so
wicked and so deeply involved in the evil practices of Baal worship, and
to take the land as their dwelling to be used for the glory of God in
leading the ungodly nations to God and His plan of redemption. The Jews
took the land and exterminated some of the inhabitants of the land but
not all. The Jews here had already begun to disobey God. They soon
became weary in their conquests of Palestine and stopped fighting. Soon
afterwards the Israelites departed from their worship of the Lord and
started to worship and serve other gods as Moses had predicted. The Jews
soon became so involved in Baal worship and its pagan practices that
some of them even sacrificed their children to Satan.

Because of
their disobedience to God's command to be faithful in their worship of
and service to the true and living God, the Jews would have to suffer.
On many occasions God allowed the children of Israel to be captured by
their enemies and to be persecuted. When the Jews cried out to God in
sorrow for their sins, the Lord delivered them. The Lord raised up
Judges to secure their deliverances. After each time the Lord brought
about the deliverance of the captured, suffering children of Israel, the
Jews would plunge back into sin and Baal worship. As time passed the
Jews became even more involved in pagan worship in spite of God's
warnings and chastisements. God raised up prophets to warn the
Israelites to repent or suffer more. Prophet after prophet was raised up
for that purpose and many of them were executed by the Jews. In 722 BC
the ten Northern tribes were captured by the Assyrians and scattered
never to return, and in 586 BC the Babylonians captured Judah and
Jerusalem. This was the third time Babylon came up against them but this
time brought about their total destruction as everything was torn down.
After the Babylonian captivity in 539 BC at which time Babylon had
fallen to the Persians, the Persians granted the Jews in Babylon
permission to return to Jerusalem.

Many Jews did return to
Palestine during the years 539 BC, 457 BC and 445 BC. Others doubtless
returned between those years and after 445 BC. Read also Daniel's 70
weeks prophecy. In 70 AD the Romans under General Titus captured
Jerusalem and persecuted the Jews. The Jews final dispersion took place
at this time. After 70 AD, the Jews had been dispersed into all the
nations of the world to suffer. Nearly all nations who had received Jews
eventually turned on them and persecuted them. The Jews have been the
most hated and persecuted people in history and have suffered more than
any other people. They disobeyed God and they had to suffer as God said
they would.

When the Roman Empire was in power during the earthly
life of Jesus and during the early Church period, the Roman Caesars
were to be worshipped as gods. The early Christians were persecuted by
the Romans because they would not bow down to the pagan Caesars. Satan
directed this persecution of the early believers in an effort to stamp
out Christianity. But instead of wiping out Christianity, persecution
resulted in its growth! As more Christians were put to death, more and
more Christians rose up to replace them. Satan saw that his directed
persecution of the early believers would not obliterate Christianity so
he moved to attack the Church from within instead of from without.

Satan devised a plan by which he would lay the foundation for and
establish his own counterfeit church. Under Satan's direction paganism
would get a new face. Satan would introduce to the world his own version
of a “Christian Church.” As was indicated earlier, the Caesars were
worshipped as gods. As the Roman Empire was near disintegration, the
pagan Caesars did not want to lose their power in controlling the world,
so they decided on a plan by which to keep their power and influence in
the world. The Roman Caesars simply exchanged their Roman togas for
religious costumes. Thus they could control the world's governments and
their economies through religion.

After Constantine defeated
Maxentius in 312 AD in a battle for the throne of Rome, Satan continued
in his clever plan to build his own version of a “Christian Church.”
After his ascension to the Roman Throne, Constantine issued his Edict of
Toleration in 313 AD to stop the persecution of the true believers in
Christ. Under Constantine the Christian Church for a time found relief
from persecution. Satan had now temporarily stopped his persecution of
the Christian Church from without, but he would now proceed to attack
the Church from within.

Under Satan's direction, Constantine set
up the “Council of Nicaea” and presided as “Summus Pontifex”, the
official title of a Pope. Constantine's job was to mix paganism with a
perverted form of Christianity to make his new religious organization
look respectable. This mixture of paganism with some of the teaching of
Christ was Satan's version of a “Christian Church.” This powerful
religious institution would be later used by Satan to send millions of
souls to hell and to cause the deaths of many Bible believing
Christians.Roman Catholic pagan statue said to be Mary and Jesus but was
Semiramis and son Nimrod.

Many changes took place in this
Babylonian pagan church. Under Constantine, the pagans were permitted to
bring their statues and idols of Semiramis, “The Queen of Heaven”, and
Nimrod, “Baal”, “The Sun God', into the Church. The names were changed
to the Virgin Mary, “Queen of Heaven” and little Jesus, “The Sun God.”
For example: Is this Catholic image Mary and baby Jesus or is it
Semiramis, “The Queen of Heaven” and son Nimrod/Tammuz? Note the pagan
trident symbol from the head of what is supposedly baby Jesus and that
the hand is displayed with two fingers and a thumb prominent, being
another way of symbolizing the trident and is a Satanic hand sign
symbolic of occult powers. This is also used by high Church officials
and priests in blessings invoking the sign of the cross by motioning
their right hand with two fingers and thumb casually extended. It is
also found in freemasonry of which origins can be found in the Catholic
Church. The Catholic Church erroneously say that Peter was the first so
called Pope of this Papal system but in fact it was really Constantine.
So under Constantine as its first Pope, the Roman Catholic Institution
as we know it today had its beginning. See also paganism in the Catholic
Church and Catholic Church error and was Peter the first Pope.

The Roman Catholic Church grew in power as the people in Rome were again
under the priests and each succeeding Pope. Constantine had fifty
Bibles made of perverted manuscripts composed by pagan worshippers of
Baal from Alexandria. Alexandria was not only the seat of Baal worship
but was also the headquarters of the most liberal philosophers. Those
wicked philosophers produced their own perverted version of a Bible, and
fifty such copies were made for Constantine to be given to the new
“Church” over which he presided. The Latin Vulgate, authored by Jerome
and based on the above fifty Bibles, later became the Roman Catholic
Bible, which was kept from the people so that unscriptural traditions
would have greater emphasis in the minds of the followers of the Pope.

The above information can be found in the books, The Two Babylons by
Alexander Hislop and the Angel of Light by Jack Chick. Alexander Hislop
in his book also traces Roman Catholic sacraments, ceremonies,
doctrines, confessionals, priesthood, etc. back to ancient Babylonian
Baal worship. Roman Catholicism is based on ancient Babylonian Baal
worship and on the man made traditions of the Church fathers.
Catholicism is not based on the teachings of God's Word or on the
Scriptural plan of salvation. So we find Satan had a long term plan for
his church and sun worship, which was practiced on Sunday, and was
initially most prevalent in Alexandria and Rome. From this pagan sun
worship came both the trinity doctrine and Sunday worship. Too many
people are too quick to write off the fourth Commandment as unimportant
when it obviously is. Please read who is the Antichrist for the evidence
and watch The god's of Babylon for the pagan origins of the trinity
doctrine.

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The time is at hand! Truth from the heart. Partly online journal, partly social commentary, occasionally going off on political tangents, with a smattering of economic terms. Learning at the Lord's feet, closely watching the final chapters of the Great Controversy.